Office XP ACTIVATION ERROR!!!

[Mike]

I have installed Office XP on my three computers and
Cannot activate the Program on the last two, because I
get the activation error message

How can I resolve this?

Thanks
Mike

 

[Mercury]

Since you can only activate each copy on one computer, you are going to have
to buy two more copies of Office XP if you want to install it on the other
two.

 

[Shiranui Gen-An]

Since you can only activate each copy on one computer, you are going to have
to buy two more copies of Office XP if you want to install it on the other
two.

Retail versions of Office XP have two activations built in with the EULA
allowing for installs on two machines (one is supposed to be "portable" but
nonetheless...). Likely he has an OEM version (which only contains a
license/activation for the machine it was preinstalled on) and tried to
install it on his other two machines, which violates the EULA and isn't
going to work.